Taking AIM at The Abyss

Wassup world. This is AK47 here. The Infamous 'President' of The Anti-Injustice Movement (aka The AIM). It's been some time since I've communicated with you all but now I feel the time is right. I want to let go of the past and push on to the future. I rarely write personal blogs here on the site but I feel I owe you an explanation as to why I have been somewhat elusive these past few months. The best explanation comes from my homeboy Friedrich Nietzsche: "If you gaze for long enough into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

In short I've been in a dark, misanthropic and somewhat nihilistic place due to severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a relationship break up with a long term partner and subsequent substance abuse (which I am not proud of). To be honest it was primarily the PTSD, a result of my own past experiences of being a victim of injustice, which led me to a kind of activist burn out whereby I lost my faith in the potential of the human species to change. My step back from activism recently was due to my own negative personal experiences in the world reaching a culmination point. I guess some would just say I had a nervous breakdown.

Why am I telling you this? I guess to offer an explanation and apology for pulling back from the movement for a few months (although I have been doing some work for it). However I also think I've come to a place of realization that I want to share with you. Not that my opinion is worth any more than the next person's but nor is it worth any less. The truth is I don't know whether or not we can make the world a better place. I mean for every victory against injustice there are hundreds of thousands of injustices perpetrated throughout the world. For every oppressor we destroy there are many more ready to fill their jack boots. For every mind we free there are millions more manipulated by the global elite's desensitized global consumer culture and it's puppet master theocracies which ensure we bond by exclusion. For every SAI, Lyrical Agent or Gabe 'V-Non' Rosales who utilize hip-hop as a weapon of truth there are thousands of mind murdering candy rappers out there who want to force feed you lies for blood money and bling. Damn there are even 'conscious rappers' who spit about the revolution for nothing more than ego, fashion or money. So what's the fucking point? The point is it's not a numbers game; so move beyond the myth of the moral utopia. If we work our asses off to change the world and only save a few lives, a few minds, or even a few more moments in a person's life then that's all the fucking reason we need.

In the grand ontological scheme of things I don't believe this indifferent universe is singular, this planet is significant or that this parasitic species is anything more than a cruel blunder made by the 'Blind Watchmaker' of evolution. Give any species too much rope and they'll fuck it up. Whether or not you agree or disagree with my atheistic world view is irrelevant because what we should agree on is that each tiny life is significant; if to nothing else than to itself or by virtue of its mere existence. I think theists, agnostics and atheists alike must all respect the sanctity of life, the right of every living being to it's own self-determination, and the right of all animals (human or otherwise) not to suffer needlessly. Such a worldview may be relative but there are philosophical, scientific and emotive reasons (based largely on a empirico-rationalist compatibalist approach to ethics) why it is indeed compelling. Perhaps we share these same fundamental ethical principles, but for different reasons, and that is why our religion or lack of it should not divide us from working together in solidarity against global injustice. The point is that if you don't want to surrender yourself to being merely an oppressor or victim (or both at different times) then protect those who need protection. Apathy is a bore, the hurling masses are asses and every crowd needs a silver lining so be it! Take AIM!

This reasoning I have outlined demonstrates why I have now flipped the bird at my recent nihilistic worldview. Free falling into darkness, drugs, drink, and destruction, or merely watching chewing gum TV, is just way too fucking easy. We are defined by overcoming our weaknesses in order to become stronger as individuals and as a species; so let's sweat it out for the global struggle.

I have chosen to put everything I have back into making this movement everything I believe it can be. Not only because of my recent philosophical reasoning or because I am slaying my own personal demons right now, but also because of the inspiration I feel in response to other members of AIM Clika and the core supporters of it. I salute those real freedom fighters who never gave up the fight for this movement and it's objectives, even when I almost did. Mad props to those who stand by their ethics, comrades and causes even when the chips are down and their pockets won't be lined with profits nor their egos massaged by promotion. I want to thank all the members and supporters of AIM Clika (as we are affectionately known), new and old, who have stood by myself, Santa Maria and the movement during the tough times. Particularly Gabe, SAI, Coffy, Enki, Chinita, Rainbow Castro, Paria B, Greydon, Pers, Stream and Warrior. I also want to thank our loyal supporters and comrades for bearing with us in a time of turbulence which has inevitably led to a new era of transformation, regeneration and growth.

The AIM is not about publicity, profit or promotion it's about heart. Through the tough times we have learnt who uses the movement to fight injustice and who merely uses the movement. Now we move forward to the next phase as a strong collective of individuals who must use their own inspiration, initiative and work ethic to take AIM against injustice like never before. Are you ready?

I'd also like to to take this opportunity to publicly welcome our new AIM members to the family. First off I'd like to welcome back AIM West Coast/UK MC Proclaim after a well deserved break. I'd also like to welcome sharp spitting UK MCs Plato and Knew Eyes to the AIM Clika. Not to mention our new beatmeisters; the legendary Hellbound of Demonios Sekt and Paria B's super spinnin DJ DUWOPRose. Last but definitely not least I'd like to welcome aboard our new General of AIM Texas; the ass kicking atheist and activist Kate the Great.

That's all folks! ;)

"Fighting with words as our weapons."

~AK47~

~AIM President~

Taking AIM Against Human Trafficking!

As you may have heard we are offering support to another international campaign called Anti-Slavery International. This is because one of the key issues The AIM will be tackling in the long term is human trafficking and modern day slavery whether that be sexual, domestic, agricultural or otherwise. This is a crucial issue and is close to the hearts of various AIM members. Despite what they told you slavery is alive and well in various forms all across the globe. We want to combat it on an international, national and local level because abolishing human trafficking and modern day slaveryit is central in the struggle for human rights.

New York East Coast AIM General, activist and political emcee SAI works on the frontlines combatting human trafficking and slavery. Thus he has released this new track, One Day in June, to mark the genesis of our determined effort to enable modern day slaves to liberate themselves from the shackles of their oppressors. He tackles two very real but different cases, both in relation to child trafficking in order to expose the harsh reality of the sexual and domestic exploitation of children. AIM President and vitriolic Street Poet AK47 has also added a another very personal and raw poem about her experience of being forced into prostitution as a young teenager to her Street Poetry profile page. This is to bring attention to the brutal reality of the sexual exploitation of young girls through forced prostitution which is often a result of human trafficking. Her brave and brutal poem is available here and it will hopefully encourage you to join the fight against modern day slavery.

When you're done with that, please visit http://www.flsny.org/ and tell your friends and family about the difficult work that Farmworker Legal Services is doing in the State of New York. They are fighting for the rights of farmworkers as well as low wage workers and they need your support. If you can make a donation to FLSNY, please do so because every penny counts.

" The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression."
(Albert Camus)

Radio AIM

There have been a number of radio shows recently featuring The AIM and a previous blog has covered these. Tonight sees another installment of AIM president AK47 hitting the airwaves, this time with Wisdom Supreme of Supreme Entertainment on Blog Talk Radio. The show is on air from 8 til 10pm EST (that's 1-3am BST) so be sure to tune in or even call in if you can.

All the info you need to know via Wisdom Supreme:

Season 3 premier of Supreme Entertainment!

Interview Spotlight segment:

Supreme Entertainment at www.blogtalkradio.com/agsupreme call in number (646) 716-8850.

We're back for season 3 of Supreme Entertainment on BTR! This season promises to continue to showcase incredible talent while providing thought provoking commentary, credible newsworthy segments on social issues and current events, classic music segments (that our old school hip-hop fans have come to know and love) all in the cutting edge, informative and personable style that makes Supreme Ent so unique!

This year we set things off for season 3 with our beloved Artist/Interview Spotlight segment, which has in the past showcased both old and new artists and introduced or strengthened their presence to the BTR masses! From Sun of Man, Eryk Moore, Taalam Acey, Georgia Me, Maximus Parthas, D-Black, Rock WILK, Shanelle Gabriel, Monte Smith & more have all blessed the Supreme Ent. showcase!

Our segments caliber of talent is no less this time around as we have 2 incredible guests joining us for our premier. First up is not only someone who is a hot spoken word Poet, but a passionate Activist who is head of the A.I.M. organization (the Anti-Injustice Movement) named AK47! Here what she has to say about her latest projects, how she got the A.I.M. group started, and what plans they have for the future. Our next guest will be business entrepreneur Portia Chandler. This forward thinking individual has the vision and ambition to get behind and invest in a health product that she believes will revolutionize the way you people utilize and invest in health products! So don't miss out on what it is, and how you can become an active participant!

We also have a new lineup and co-host to introduce to our listeners as well. As most of you may know Miss T. had to take a leave of absence to pursue her higher learning academic affairs! We wish her nothing but the best, support and love for that! So rejoining the Supreme Ent fam will be Poet/Author Enchantress! So stay tuned for more updates TBA!

And speaking of radio shows, our good friend Curry Kid of Off The Top Radio (OTTR) has been working on some promotion for the upcoming 'Lyrical Warfare Volume One'. AIM artists have been discussing their tracks with Curry Kid and a segment about the mixtape will air during this weekend's show (00:00 - 06:00 EST Sunday). Also, listen out for some AIM members featuring in a Father's Day special! As well as promotion during this weekend's show, Curry Kid is also working on a special segment about the mixtape that will not be aired and will be used by both Curry Kid and The AIM in some way as yet undecided. Perhaps it will be made available as an exclusive download? Perhaps it will be given as a prize or reward. Perhaps it will be auctioned? Keep an eye on this space here to find out.

Our sincerest thanks and appreciation go out to Curry Kid for taking the time to work with The AIM and our artists to promote the mixtape in this way. He is a pleasure to work with and the conversations between recording have been awesome. We at HQ are already big fans of him and his show so we have loved this opportunity to work with him on this. We are excited to hear the show and it'll be a great chance for listeners to get a sneak preview of some of the tracks so be sure not to miss it!

In case any of you have forgotten 'Lyrical Warfare Volume One' will be available online for download from July 1st 2010 at all the coolest online music stores!

AK47

BIO

Thus Spoke AK47

"I'm a firebrand revolutionary bitch, Che Guevara with perfect tits."

(AK47)

AK47 is a half Scottish half Slovenian obsessive compulsive hardcore hip-hop lovin straight edge atheist who spouts Nietzsche quotes at random intervals. She has a first class honours in Religious Studies and a Masters in Humanities with a research focus on Religious Terrorism. Her Masters thesis was entitled “The Problem with Bloody Religion: A Critical Analysis of the Profound Relationship Between Religion and Violence upon the Theatre of Global Terror” , which advocated a new theory of ‘religious violence’ involving the idea of metaphysical scarcity. She also wrote and directed a play entitled ’Pillowstalk’ for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2000 which was dubbed by one critic as ‘offensive yet intelligent’, a bit like herself at times.

Since then she has worked teaching English to foreign national criminals in a prison, tutoring academic study skills at a university, promoting underground hip-hop and fetish clubs, and busting up fights while working as a Glasgow bouncer. She is currently running an international secular hip-hop/protest poetry activist movement called The Anti-Injustice Movement (The AIM). The AIM is a worldwide movement of activists, political emcees and protest poets who use intelligent and creative non-violent methods to fight global injustice, perpetrated by the government, organized religion, or corporate vampires. They are lyrical protesters who throw words instead of Molotov cocktails. AK47 co-ordinates the movement, promotes the various hip-hop artists involved, and is a firebrand protest poet in her own right. Her poetry cuts as deep as a Columbian necktie.

She has also recently become the UK Chapter leader for revolutionary hip-hop organization/guerrilla apparel clothing brand Guerrilla Republik who are also an AIM affiliate.

AK's 'grandeur of aspiration', in her own words, is to: “ Deprogram the minds of those who have been lulled into sedation by the soothing lies that surround us. ”

POETRY

Dead Inside 

My heart feels disdain with the strain of cheap cocaine 
My serotonin levels are deficient 
I vacuum up the dopemine to straighten out my brain 
I take uppers and downers in an ironic attempt to not go insane 
Cocaine nights, valium afternoons and lesbian sex make me forget 
That everytime these men raped me I was anything but wet 
It's all in the past of a baby prostitute they nicknamed Colette. 
 But let's be realistic I'm just another statistic 
And when Necro sings about White Slavery 
He bastarizes the bravery of abused 'whores' everywhere 
Who get up in the morning when they don't fucking care. 
Cos when you've been raped with a broken glass bottle 
You're not really there, 
You can't unsee the flashbacks behind your hard paranoid stare 
But I was one of the few that did survive, 
Hard and smart enough to academically thrive 
But the sad thing in life is not in dying, It's what dies inside of us when we are alive. 
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Dog Collar Daddy

The trick baby never recovered from that first broken nose,

She became harder than Tyler Durden,

Kept her so called 'friends' at a distance and her enemies real fucking close.

The problem with being in vice is that you end up smoking ice,

And every dirty pervert thinks he can give you his advice,

While he's fucking a pre-pubescent with a motherfucking knife,

Then he puts back on his dog collar and goes home to kiss his wife.

Then he stands upon the pulpit with a hard on in his hand,

Screaming 'sex outside of marriage should be legally banned.'

"Homosexuality is a sin," he proclaims and "Fags should burn in hell!"

While his son's cartoon bedspread is sanctified with daddy's salty smell

"Eve is part of Adam's rib!"

Thus he curses to hell women's lib.

That's why he fucked his daughter when she was only in the crib.

But it's ok,

He said sorry,

And God forgives him?

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Women: The Most Haram of All Meat

Faceless drones of black silk shuffle through the street,

They can't show their faces in public places,

Or they'll be raped by Mohammed for not being discreet

The brides of Allah are bled out of identity,

They are the most haram of all meat.

Their lives are slaughtered like swine,

In an abattoir to the divine,

Behind black silken prisons they have ideas and visions,

But if we don't grant them no rights,

They can't make no decisions.

Religion holds the trump card that we need to discard

But in this climate of theocracy this is so fucking hard!

The liberals for liberals sake say that Sharia is about choice,

When oppression is institutionalised people don't use their voice

When submission becomes a sacrament only the masters will rejoice

But there is never no freedom in slavery

Hiding a punch in the face ain't about bravery,

Muslim women are people like you and me,

Thus we are all duty bound to set them free

Never bow down to the will of Allah,

Nor mutter the words 'inshallah',

Be proud to be the dirty kuffar,

Because political Islam you've gone too far!

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Once Upon A Crime

The Combat Kid in the video arcade was playing at GI Joe.

Then he opened fire at milk break,

Wasting fourth grade like a pro.

Channel nine asked “ Why d’ya do it son? “

Combat Kid only smirked “ I dunno. “

And Mary Poppins pulls an Uzi from her carpet bag, and gives Jane and Michael ammo.

Little Orphan Annie got adopted,

By a paedophile ring.

“ It’s a hard knock life for us! “ the children sing.

And the pillar of the community laughs.

Please leave the light on, “ the children said.

“ We get bad dreams and we wet the bed. “

But the room is empty, and the lightbulb red.

And the sun won’t come out tomorrow.

Oliver Twist screams at his persecutors “ We Want MORE! “

Alice knows Wonderland is just the mescaline.

And perfect Cinderella is a cock sucking whore,

And the boy that cried wolf was not lying.

But what’s one more little kid crying or dying

“ Your children are not dead. “ the Pied Piper said.

“ They’re just waiting until the world deserves them. “

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The Shopping Mall

Are you only half alive?

Do you not know who you are?

Have you bought the dream?

Do you want to be a Superstar?

A hippie mad dog cult leader?

A Bardot bitch in a boudoir?

Mercedez Benz, Versace, ornamental bidet,

Ray Bann, biofoods and a cafe au lait,

Coca-Cola,

Pearl white smiles,

Do you want to be part of a cliche?

The bleach blonde Barbie plastic nympho,

With her 'Cosmo Guide To Feminist Fellatio',

Consumerism,

And the average American psycho.

The Billboard,

Propaganda,

Chewing gum TV,

The Rat Race,

Marketplace,

The Powers That Be,

I’m an anti-social,

In an anti-social society.

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Lolita's Lullaby

Dirty bleached blonde baby whores,

Credit card kicks,

Scrape the knife down my arm happiness,

Truth for me is internet murder graphics,

Nihilistic resignation.

The lullaby of comfortable misanthropy that makes it all okay,

In the long run we’re all dead anyway.

How can you push me when I’m already in free fall?

Daily fantasies about wasting those bastards at the local shopping mall.

And it will all have been wasted.

I’m nothing; in the future, in the present, or before.

I’m just a £30 pound a fuck whore.

Nothing less,

Nothing more.

The bruises that you cry for aren’t even sore.

I’m just a piece of abused shit ravaged to the core.

There is no redemption.

And the hatred seeps further than you can ever reach.

I’m the maggot in the putrid peach.

I suck upon the sickness like an overfed leech.

You will never know me,

Because you weren’t ass fucked, gang raped or handled with plastic gloves.

You just watched too much TV,

And you’ll never be me,

And I’m really glad that you will never see that shit that I had to see.

Please don’t look at the the pictures they took of me.

She cowers in the corner,

Alone,

Needs someone to hold her,

Maybe she's worth nothing just like they told her.

DIVISION

AIM UK

PUBLISHED WORK

MA Research: The Problem with Bloody Religion: A Critical Analysis of the Profound Relationship Between Religion and Violence upon the Theatre of Global Terror

The End Short Story on Weaponizer

CONTACT DETAILS

AK47

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